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You can't out-perform your self-image.

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
W. James
Self
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
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Every claim creates an obligation.
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Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.
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The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
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To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.
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Lay plans as if we were to be immortal.
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Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
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Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.
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I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
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Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.
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Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.
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